- people take me out to breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- people send beautiful flowers
- people send the most amazing packages (knitting patterns, books, cookies, dvds,
US Weeklys, coffee, swedish fish, quilts)
- people send the most thoughtful, eloquently written cards
- people visit from 6 to 100 to 800 to 1000 miles away
- people leave voicemail messages all the time - with words of love, encouragement,
or just details of their day
- friends of eric's call just to check on me - from boulder, from germany,
from carolina
- people i've never met check the blog every day
- my dad mows our lawn with a 30 year old lawnmower, fixes the bath tub drain,
and washes dishes
- my mom walks our dog, vacuums, and buys me pocketed shirts to disguise my
current one-sidedness
- my brother calls from the arctic circle
- my extended family feels closer and less "extended"
- people come out of the woodwork...from 2nd grade, from 6th grade, from high
school, from college, from across the street
- nurses give me their home numbers
i can't really find the words to say how much it all means to me.
i mean...it's pretty remarkable. and wonderful. and mind blowing.
and, at the same time, shouldn't we be doing things like this for each other every day just because?
xo
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
-Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 1207-1273, written in 1230
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6 comments:
Reading through that list, Meghan, I realized that you DO do many of those things for your friends all the time. It's one of your most wonderful qualities, and it's right and good that it's coming back to you.
Meghan,
You're right, these are things we SHOULD all do for each other each day. I guess cancer puts it all in perspective. I'm glad you can reap the goodness of all the good that you have done in your life, now.
Stay well....
thinking of you
erica
Meghan, you are such a good friend to so many and you actually DO most of these things for your friends all the time. So many of us have been on the receiving end of packages, and thoughtful gifts, and eloquently written words of support and love when most needed for years.
You've got a lot of good kharma in this department (and so many others) and I'm glad it's raining down on you now.
yes
Meg. As has been said here already, you are such an amazing friend and your caring words are cards and support have been INVALUABLE to me for so many years. So many people love and cherish you meg please know that. LOVE YOU.
YEAH we should. Now get over here and mop my kitchen floor!
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